virsh provides net-start <netname-or-id> to activate an inactive network. Does virsh provide any way to do the exact converse? deactivate an active network without destroying, undefining, removing, ... Also - I am curious - what does activate actually do? What change in state of anything occurs? ( I read the document at http://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html which the man page referred me to but it had nothing to say on this. I did not try to read the code). John _________________________________________________________________ MSN Dating: Find someone special. Start now. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9734384